Why I'd Never Use Gigabyte Products Again

[fatguy1992]

I current own five gigabyte (or should I say crapabyte) products. All of them are a piece of ****. They all worked great for the first 3 months, now they are all dead, dieing or just ****ing around.

Here are some of the problems I have had with these motherboards (UD3R/UD3P/DS3P). As I said all is great for the first 3 or so months, no complains what so ever then. However after that point they ALL start going down hill.

The DS3P for about 3 weeks would not post (if had been turned off, not restarted) until I had cleared its CMOS. I stress tested, re-flashed to every BIOS, didn't help. Then all of a sudden it stooped, no idea why it start in the first place. Also this mobo would not let me change any settings in the BIOS, the options are there, however if I change one, no post at all. BTW this mobo was never OC'ed as it is a workstation. A few months ago it stopped posting so matter what I did. Different CPU, RAM, GPU everything, so I assumed it was the mobo. So I left it for 2 weeks then tired again, still dead so I RMA'ed it. Only to find out that it worked great for them, and I got charged a service fee for RMA'ing a working part. I brought it home, pluged it in and it worked, I thought yay at least its working. I turned it off, came back 2 hours later, won't post again, exact same hardware as before.

The UD3P does this weird crap with RAM. Sometimes it won't post with more then 1 stick of RAM installed. It would just start and stop every 5secs. I tired testing each stick, they all work. As well as different BIOSes.

The UD3R is my most hated mobo ever, pretty much the same reason as stated before, but worse. It has wasted so much of my money and time. So hard to OC, so unpredictable. One time I did 4.976GHz on my Q6600, next time I could even get 4.8GHz with the same settings.

The 9400GT, I got it plug it in and I was wondering why it was running so slow, about ¼ the speed of other people's benchmarks with slower clocks. I looked at the specs and it about ½ - ¼ of the reference card. ****ing hell it says 9400GT on the box, so it should have the same specs as a reference 9400GT. If it has less, then it is not a ****ing 9400GT. So its a piece of crap too weak to even run phyx. I can't RMA it, cause it working how crapabyte made it to, so it isn't dead.

I also own a gigabyte mouse, this worked so well for 3months like everything else. It was great value and all that. The one day it just died, no reason so I RAM'ed it.

So am I really that unlucky that all 5 crapabyte products I brought this year all suck? Anyway I really hope that gigabyte goes out of business. I don't have heaps of money to go spending on stuff, so when I buy something I want it to work how it should for longer then 3 months. Is that really too much to ask from a company? Has anyone else had similar issues?

 

[{Sniping}Waste]

I had good luck with Gigabyte mother boards and some are still being used for over 5 years. Your problem could be a failing PSU or your home has bad power.

 

[Flibolito]

That's really interesting. I have had great luck with their motherboards. All still live and work great. I can't say much about the other stuff since I only really buy mobos from them but have never had a single issue or one break on me. I guess to each their own experience.

 

[pbmaster]

Sounds like there is something fishy going on over there

 

[freaksavior]

I current own five gigabyte (or should I say crapabyte) products. All of them are a piece of ****. They all worked great for the first 3 months, now they are all dead, dieing or just ****ing around.

Here are some of the problems I have had with these motherboards (UD3R/UD3P/DS3P). As I said all is great for the first 3 or so months, no complains what so ever then. However after that point they ALL start going down hill.

The DS3P for about 3 weeks would not post (if had been turned off, not restarted) until I had cleared its CMOS. I stress tested, re-flashed to every BIOS, didn't help. Then all of a sudden it stooped, no idea why it start in the first place. Also this mobo would not let me change any settings in the BIOS, the options are there, however if I change one, no post at all. BTW this mobo was never OC'ed as it is a workstation. A few months ago it stopped posting so matter what I did. Different CPU, RAM, GPU everything, so I assumed it was the mobo. So I left it for 2 weeks then tired again, still dead so I RMA'ed it. Only to find out that it worked great for them, and I got charged a service fee for RMA'ing a working part. I brought it home, pluged it in and it worked, I thought yay at least its working. I turned it off, came back 2 hours later, won't post again, exact same hardware as before.

The UD3P does this weird crap with RAM. Sometimes it won't post with more then 1 stick of RAM installed. It would just start and stop every 5secs. I tired testing each stick, they all work. As well as different BIOSes.

The UD3R is my most hated mobo ever, pretty much the same reason as stated before, but worse. It has wasted so much of my money and time. So hard to OC, so unpredictable. One time I did 4.976GHz on my Q6600, next time I could even get 4.8GHz with the same settings.

The 9400GT, I got it plug it in and I was wondering why it was running so slow, about ¼ the speed of other people's benchmarks with slower clocks. I looked at the specs and it about ½ - ¼ of the reference card. ****ing hell it says 9400GT on the box, so it should have the same specs as a reference 9400GT. If it has less, then it is not a ****ing 9400GT. So its a piece of crap too weak to even run phyx. I can't RMA it, cause it working how crapabyte made it to, so it isn't dead.

I also own a gigabyte mouse, this worked so well for 3months like everything else. It was great value and all that. The one day it just died, no reason so I RAM'ed it.

So am I really that unlucky that all 5 crapabyte products I brought this year all suck? Anyway I really hope that gigabyte goes out of business. I don't have heaps of money to go spending on stuff, so when I buy something I want it to work how it should for longer then 3 months. Is that really too much to ask from a company? Has anyone else had similar issues?

funny how all your boards are the low end ones.

I have had 4 gigabyte boards. all at least ud4 level (or whatever they were called in the 965 days and the p4 days) and they were fine. My current serve uses a p35 ds3 and its rock solid.

 

[BazookaJoe]

yeah I gotta admit I've been using gigabyte for well over 10 years now and they have been by far the most reliable boards i have ever used - I have them placed with a number of clients and they are all perfectly happy, many of them now over 6 years old and still going strong.

Although it has just happened that I have not yet used any of their newest boards, and cant comment on those honestly, I do have friends using them, and they are all quite happy (Threw out ASUS boards in favor of Gigabyte)

I suggest you check your house for EM fields, radiation, or Ghosts... :\

 

[Jstn7477]

The only bad luck i've had with Gigabyte was either an existing problem with other manufacturer's boards or my own fault. My dad had a high-end Gigabyte nForce 2 based Socket A motherboard, and that thing was the bomb. AGP Pro, 3 phase + a 3 phase add-in card for CPU VRM, 4 DIMM slots, Dual BIOS, Dual NICs, + much more. The board died a few years later because of some overfilled or fake Nichicon 3300uf capacitors that blew up (a majority of Socket A/Pentium 4 boards had bad capacitors). My other Gigabyte experience was with a GA-MA78GM-S2H. Long story short, board supports 95w CPUs, I meant to buy a 95w Phenom X4, but mistakenly bought a 9750 125w, and the board lasted 3-4 months before the CPU power circuit burned out for good.

 

[Binge]

I love gigabyte products. Troubleshoot your problems further.

 

[unclewebb]

If you can't overclock your Q6600 reliably by more than 100% from 2.4 GHz to 4.8 GHz then obviously Gigabyte makes absolute junk.

Next time you need to RMA a board maybe send it my way. I'll take this old junk off your hands.

 

[grunt_408]

I use The gig boards no probs here ever.

 

[Steevo]

I have a few at work, and have had no issues.


Perhaps the lowest common denominator is the correct answer to your problem?

 

[vagxtr]

The UD3P does this weird crap with RAM. Sometimes it won't post with more then 1 stick of RAM installed. It would just start and stop every 5secs. I tired testing each stick, they all work. As well as different BIOSes.

I'd agrred with you that Gigabyte as most of top branded manufacturers could have some serious bugs in design or bios on their budget and budget-mainstream mobos like these. And that sometimes even manufacturers like ecs or msi upper mainstream offerings for the same price could be much better deal.
But be real, you cant really claim an issue with mobo with heavily OCed processor like Q6600 under LN2 on it that wont degrade much quicker than if people use it in normal circumstances, ex with less than 200W+ delivered ofer 4-5 rails to processor For that there's higher end models like extreme DQ6 (not know how they call it after renaming scheme) few of DS5 and certainly fair DS4 (UD4) series. You even had more bang for buck and you're complaining

I'm much more disappointed that they on really costly mainstream cards like hd4850/4870 didn't put proper pwm regulator like voltera, anpec or st giving us ability to softmod voltages thru RBE. It's ok to see that design on budget graphic cards releases, or from some price conscious manufacturers like Club3d/VTX, but they claim they're overclock friendly and no power fiddling allowed If any has same problems resloved with undervolting-overvolting hd4850 you're welcome to help

 

[choppy]

got a p35-ds3l , solid for 2years and counting. i have purchased a g31m-es2l and yet to build a low end rig this weekend, il let you know how that one is too

 

[PaulieG]

At least for the x58 platform, Gigabyte makes the best performance to price boards, period. I've owned 3 of them, and never had a problem with any of them.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

I have a GA-m61p-S3 that has been running since 07 it folds and crunches 24/7. Its one of gigabyte's low/mid range boards and it worked great.Been overclocked also from day 1... I did have a gigabyte board back in Socket A times. It worked great for a few years till i gave it to a friend he used it for awhile on a cheap generic PSU and killed it but no fault of the board.

 

[Scheich]

cheap mobos are like a shitstorm. safe the money for at least midrange

 

[Kantastic]

Even cheap mobos are supposed to last more than 3 months.... that's not even a legitimate factor here.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

Even cheap mobos are supposed to last more than 3 months.... that's not even a legitimate factor here.

+1 cheap boards can last way more then 3months.

cheap mobos are like a shitstorm. safe the money for at least midrange

cheap boards can run for along time if there not abused(overclocked heavily and under constant load) if you say that isn't true then look at some of the prebuilts that are still running from early 2000... Also the board that i mentioned i think would be considered a "cheap" board(it cost ~$90) and its been overclocked and under load 24/7 for almost 3 years

 

[hat]

Not if you clock the piss out of everything.

 

[vagxtr]

My dad had a high-end Gigabyte nForce 2 based Socket A motherboard, and that thing was the bomb. AGP Pro, 3 phase + a 3 phase add-in card for CPU VRM, 4 DIMM slots, Dual BIOS, Dual NICs, + much more. The board died a few years later because of some overfilled or fake Nichicon 3300uf capacitors that blew up (a majority of Socket A/Pentium 4 boards had bad capacitors).

Yep that were Nichicons fault, and not manufacturers design flaw Well in fact many manufacturers had problems in that times, as far my memory serves, caused by users used to overclock power hungry processors above 120W TDP and mobos of that time weren't designed to support extra power needs with many rails as today's mobos. Most of mobos come with 3-raill PWM.
I must say it's weird to understood for that exclusive 6-rail Gigabyte boards that had same issue cause they were marketed for Overclockers but then these add-in cards with extra 3 rails just serve as quick patch support for 3 main rails on mobo and on top of that add-ins were 3-5cm close to main 3-rail pwm causing too many power mosfets in heavily crammed space simply doesn't give much room for proper temperature conduction from board

..... it's not nice to see that AsRock spam on 2oz copper pcb that Gigabyte started to popularize last year waving green flag with consumption reduction and declaring it as much cooler than any of their competitior's boards. While in fact these additional copper inside pcb just use to store more heat in it and without proper 120mm fan blowing in that place it simply overheats ... and that's flaw by design and not by mistake, and false marketing for that matters, they now came back to marketing 24-phase design just as Asus had 16-phase last year but that's simple to store more energy inside coils and it's not real 16 rail but simple 8 rail with two coils in every rail storing energy more efficiently .... and liberal phases interpret from Asus and now Gigabyte

And that's something Gigabyte did with these old P4/Athlon K7 mobos having additional phases with capacitors and not real 6 rail design. So it was just a power boost storage and not designed for durability they now claims yet again.

I have a GA-m61p-S3 that has been running since 07 it folds and crunches 24/7. Its one of gigabyte's low/mid range boards and it worked great.Been overclocked also from day 1...

Not every board is the same for example that weird GB mobos based on old nV430 w/ working 6100IGP like GA-M55plus-S3G rev. 2.0 & 1.0 (model name M55 and not nForce 550!!) how deceptive name as shortly lived GA-M55S-S3 (nF550) even it had 3 revisions like it's older sis based on nF570. And quickly replaced with just one revisioned GA-M56S-S3 (nF560). Anyway that nf430 based boards (w/ or w/o working 6100 IGP inside) like some other models died like a flies and nf550/nf570 had serious flaws in terms of HT clock usually that even final releases didnt fix (max HT-1200M!!) While some budget boards like yours GA-M61P-S3 (rev. 1.0) might work great out of the box even when they had that problematic nF430 chipset.
My guess, that they probably decided to produce one or two series based on nF430 (from the broad range i mentioned and some others i didn't) on better binned chips or you're just lucky. And you're board is one of few from that time that had only rev.1.0 so it's either better designed or later design when they need to get rid of stocked pile of obsolete nf430 chips which was best binning (i don't now when it was released) just like polished up Gigabyte nF560 board had only one and working revision for 1.5yr while nF550 boards last maybe only 9 month or so

 

[Soylent Joe]

I love my EP45-UD3P, couldn't be more satisfied. I always try to get a Gigabyte board for any rig, best around IMO. I'd say something is up if all five of your Gigabyte motherboards have had a problem. You'd have better luck than that even when dealing with a low-end brand like ASRock or something.

 

[Zubasa]

+1 cheap boards can last way more then 3months.


cheap boards can run for along time if there not abused(overclocked heavily and under constant load) if you say that isn't true then look at some of the prebuilts that are still running from early 2000... Also the board that i mentioned i think would be considered a "cheap" board(it cost ~$90) and its been overclocked and under load 24/7 for almost 3 years

Totally Agree.
In fact Gigabyte makes some of the best AMD boards.
My 770 board got 8+2 phases power for less than $90, what more can you want?

 

[Nick89]

I have a few at work, and have had no issues.


Perhaps the lowest common denominator is the correct answer to your problem?

I have to agree with you, Steevo.


My MA790FX-UD5P has never had any problems and OC's great. In my dads computer there is an old Gigabyte Radeon 9550 256mb card that was OC'ed from 250core 200mem to 450core 250mem and still runs at those clocks today(with after-market cooling).

I've never had a problem with a GIGABYTE product.

 

[Melvis]

I have had nothing but Gigabyte motherboards ranging from the Socket A, to the latest AM3 and all 15 or more Mobo's i have had only one has died on me and it was after a good yrs use.

All the motherboards supported AMD CPU's that's the only difference i can see from yours?

 

[dr emulator (madmax)]

I had good luck with Gigabyte mother boards and some are still being used for over 5 years. Your problem could be a failing PSU or your home has bad power.

yes try a different psu my pc (in the specs) had alsorts of problems bsod games returning to windows, so i took it apart 1 day to clean out the dust, and found my capacitors bubbling after about 11 hours of being disconected from the mains (so i got a corsair hx 650watt to replace it (expensive but worth the money and came with a 7 year warranty ) i'd also recomend a good surge arresting powerclean plug